Muscle Memory

One of the strongest tenets of a dancer’s arsenal is the idea of possessing muscle memory. It helps them to accomplish spectacular movements in prescribed sequences over and over again until their bodies dominate the choreography in a perfected display. Sometimes I use this strategy to generate amalgams in the traditional darkroom. I use old negatives, discarded microfiche, digital negatives and other ephemera. In addition, I use a flatbed scanner and Photoshop to construct deconstruct and reconstruct my re-imagined realities of family members both past and present.